Bug#1126862: yelp: invisible content with NVIDIA graphics

[Jeremy Bícha]

Control: retitle -1 yelp: invisible content with NVIDIA graphics
Control: reassign -1 src:webkit2gtk 2.50.4-1+b1
Control: affects -1 src:yelp

This kind of bug is likely a webkit2gtk bug so I'm reassigning.

Please be specific about what NVIDIA graphics hardware you have.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM Tim McConnell <tmcconnell168 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: yelp
> Version: 49.0-5
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tmcconnell168 at gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>  What led up to the situation? Unknown
>
>  What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?Attempt to launch a help screen in any program, it fails to
> show any text, I tried launching yelp from a command line and I still get the
> blank white screen.
>
> What was the outcome of this action? A blank white screen shows with this in
> the command line output:
>         yelp
> src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native):
> nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)
>
> pci id for fd 28: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 29: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 30: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 29: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 30: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native):
> nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)
>
> pci id for fd 24: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 25: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 26: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 25: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> pci id for fd 26: 10de:1b80, driver (null)
> KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
> KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
> Failed to create GBM buffer of size 960x584: Permission denied
>
>  What outcome did you expect instead? To be able to view help files.
> If it matters I'm using MATE 1.28.2 for a desktop with NVIDIA GPUs.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.18.5+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages yelp depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4
> ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.8.3-1
> ii  libc6                                        2.42-11
> ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.86.3-5
> ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.20.3+ds-3
> ii  libwebkitgtk-6.0-4                           2.50.4-1+b1
> ii  libyelp-1-0                                  49.0-5
> ii  man-db                                       2.13.1-1
> ii  python3                                      3.13.7-1+b1
> ii  python3-distro                               1.9.0-1
> ii  user-session-migration                       0.5.1
> ii  yelp-xsl                                     49.0-2